How many libraries are there in the UK?

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4,515 Public Libraries
846 Academic Libraries

The above information was taken from the Libraries, Archives, Museums and Publishing Online Statistics Tables, published by LISU (Library & Information Statistics Unit), Loughborough University.

Updated: 07 August 2007

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